Marianne Williamson

Marianne Williamson (8 July 1952-) was an American self-help guru who sought the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2020.

Biography
Marianne Williamson was born in Houston, Texas in 1952 to a Jewish family, and she dropped out of college in 1973 with the goal of becoming a cabaret singer in New York City. In 1979, she ran a metaphysical bookstore/coffesshop in Houston, and she moved to Los Angeles in 1983, where she became an HIV/AIDS activist. She founded Project Angel Food to deliver food to people with life-threatening illnesses, co-founded the Peace Alliance nonprofit educational organzation, and wrote four New York Times number one bestseller self-help books. In 2014, she launched a failed independent bid for the US House of Representatives, and, in 2019, she ran for President as a Democrat, promising to fight Donald Trump with love.